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Africana Women Writers: Performing Diaspora, Staging Healing

/ DeLinda Marzette

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  • Marzette, DeLinda, Auteur Idref
    • Languages: anglaisCountry: ETATS-UNISPublication: New York (N.Y.): Peter Lang; Copyright date: 2013Description: 1 volume (152 pages); couverture illustrée en couleurs; 24 cmppn: 177959754 SUDOCISBN: 978-1-433-11380-2 ; 1-433-11380-5Collection: Studies on themes and motifs in literature, 108, 1056-3970Classification: 3 (Sub-Saharan Africa), 800 (Literature)Abstract:
    " 'Africana Women Writers: Performing Diaspora, Staging Healing' focuses on contemporary literary works, plays in particular, written after 1976 by Africana women writers. From a cross-cultural, transnational perspective, the author examines how these women writers – emanating from Cameroon (Nicole Werewere Liking), Britain (Winsome Pinnock), Guadeloupe (Maryse Condé and Simone Schwartz-Bart), Nigeria (Tess Onwueme), and the United States (Ntozake Shange) – move beyond static, conventional notions regarding blackness and being female and reconfigure newer identities and spaces to thrive. DeLinda Marzette explores the numerous ways these women writers create black female agency and vital, energizing communities. Contextually, she uses the term diaspora to refer to the mass dispersal of peoples from their homelands – herein Africa – to other global locations; objects of diasporic dispersal, these individuals then become a kind of migrant, physically and psychologically. Each author shares a diasporic heritage; hence, much of their subjects, settings, and themes express diaspora consciousness. Marzette explores who these women are, how they define themselves, how they convey and experience their worlds, how they broach, loosen, and explode the multiple yokes of race, class, and gender-based oppression and exploitation in their works. What is fostered, encouraged, shunned, ignored – the spoken, the unspoken and, perhaps, the unspeakable – are all issues of critical exploration. Ultimately, all the women of this study depend on female bonds for survival, enrichment, healing, and hope. The plays by these women are especially important in that they add a diverse dimension to the standard dramatic canon."
    Bibliography: Bibliographie p. [145]-152Subject - Topical Name: Émigration et immigration Dans la littérature | Théâtre (genre littéraire) Femmes écrivains noires | Théâtre (genre littéraire) antillais de langue française -- Femmes écrivains noires Thèmes, motifs | Africains, À l'étranger Dans la littérature | Théâtre (genre littéraire) africain -- Femmes écrivains noires Thèmes, motifs | Drama -- Women authors -- History and criticism | Drama -- Black authors -- History and criticism | Caribbean drama (French) -- Women authors -- Themes, motives | African drama -- Women authors -- Themes, motives | English drama -- Women authors -- Themes, motives | American drama -- Women authors -- Themes, motives | Women, Black, in literature | African diaspora in literature List(s) this item appears in: Mois des cultures d'Afrique Les diasporas d'Afrique | Caraïbe
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    Bibliographie p. [145]-152

    " 'Africana Women Writers: Performing Diaspora, Staging Healing' focuses on contemporary literary works, plays in particular, written after 1976 by Africana women writers. From a cross-cultural, transnational perspective, the author examines how these women writers – emanating from Cameroon (Nicole Werewere Liking), Britain (Winsome Pinnock), Guadeloupe (Maryse Condé and Simone Schwartz-Bart), Nigeria (Tess Onwueme), and the United States (Ntozake Shange) – move beyond static, conventional notions regarding blackness and being female and reconfigure newer identities and spaces to thrive. DeLinda Marzette explores the numerous ways these women writers create black female agency and vital, energizing communities. Contextually, she uses the term diaspora to refer to the mass dispersal of peoples from their homelands – herein Africa – to other global locations; objects of diasporic dispersal, these individuals then become a kind of migrant, physically and psychologically. Each author shares a diasporic heritage; hence, much of their subjects, settings, and themes express diaspora consciousness. Marzette explores who these women are, how they define themselves, how they convey and experience their worlds, how they broach, loosen, and explode the multiple yokes of race, class, and gender-based oppression and exploitation in their works. What is fostered, encouraged, shunned, ignored – the spoken, the unspoken and, perhaps, the unspeakable – are all issues of critical exploration. Ultimately, all the women of this study depend on female bonds for survival, enrichment, healing, and hope. The plays by these women are especially important in that they add a diverse dimension to the standard dramatic canon." 4e de couverture

    Making rite: w/riting renewal in an age of lunacy in selected works of Nicole Werewere Liking Coming to voice: navigating the interstices in plays by Winsome Pinnock Diasporic fissures and Afro-Caribbean identity in the plays of Simone Schwarz-Bart and Maryse Condé Who measures the power of woman in spoons and scales: women's worth in Tess Onwueme's Tell it to women For colored girls: treading storms, discovering rainbows

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